It is important for children to get the right nutrients while in the womb and into early childhood in order for them to grow into healthy, well-developed adults.
Poor nutrition and exposure to toxins, such as alcohol, have effects on the way a child’s brain and body develops, which may well affect them much later in their lives. South Africa Online ® explores the vulnerability of children and the effects of child malnourishment.
The brain’s slow passage into consciousness starts just days after conception: the newly fertilised egg travels down the woman’s Fallopi...
Every child born into the kind of poverty seen in Malaykamp in the Northern Cape – not just economic poverty, but a paucity of knowledge a...
If it is true that an army marches on its belly, how much more so does an entire nation’s economic survival depend on the country’s chil...
‘By the time children reach their second birthday,’ says The Lancet in a 2008 series reporting on maternal and child undernutrition, ‘...
In many of the Northern Cape communities where research was conducted, mothers weighed 40–45 kilograms throughout pregnancy. Someone weigh...
If a child does not get the right nutrition in those critical formative months between conception and the age of two, he or she could end up...
In the early days of the HIV pandemic, breastfeeding became taboo due to the risk of the child becoming infected with the virus through the ...
And so it is no stretch to say that the future well-being of our economies rests on the macronutrients and micronutrients that we feed our c...
Why is it that our children are so vulnerable to the seductive lure of fast foods and the advertising advances of the multinationals that ar...